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This is an interesting topic, though the idea of abolishing marriage is a little silly.

If you are worried about getting divorced there are two things you can do to radically increase the chance of your marriage lasting your lifetime, at least in the US.

1) graduate from college

2) wait until at least the age of 25 to get married.

Statistically those are the two factors that hinge between a majority of life long marriages and a majority of divorces in the US.

I point it out in every thread that does it, but I am not sure what being an American woman has to do with the divorce rate being as high as it is. Marriage is certainly a two-way street, so just because more women initiate divorce than men is no indicator of how awful marrying an American woman is. It may be an indicator of how awful marrying an American man is...who knows?

I am going to go out on a limb and say I am guessing that the rate of initiating divorce in Japan is probably as high if not higher from women as it is from men.